Anticreeping rail.



' A. M. TAYLQK.

- ANTIGRBEPING RAIL'f \PPLIOATION FILED JULY 25,1912.

Patented'Jan. 7, 1913.

UNITED STATES PATENT curios.

ADAM M. TAYLOR, OF HANCOCK, MARYLANIi.

ANTIOREEPING- BAIL.

Application filed July 25, 1912. Serial No. 711,386.

To all whom 1' 6 may concern:

Be it known that I, ADAM M. TAYLOR, a citizen of 'the United States, residing at Hancock, in the county of Washington,

State of Maryland, have invented a new and useful Anticreeping Rail, of which the following is a speclfication.

My invention relates'to railway rails pro vided with means for preventing the longi- 10 t-udinal movement of rails under the action of the drive-wheels passing over them, or the so called creeping of the rails. Various means for preventing this creeping of the rails have been proposed, such as perforating the foot of the rail or notching the edges of the same, and driving the spikes through such perforations or into such notches, but the foot of the rail has in such instances been weakened. It has also been proposed to provide deviations from the straight outlines of the ordinary footflanges, but such forms involve difliculties' in rolling the rails.

My invention consists of a rail having shoulders upon the foot'fianges formed with flat faces which may bear against the heads of the ordinary spikes employed to secure the rail to the ties.

' The accompanying drawings and the following description set forth in detail one mechanical form embodying the invention, such detail construction being but one of various mechanical forms in which the principle of the invention may be used.

In said accompanying drawings :-Figure 1 represents a top plan view of a portion of my improved rail and portions of two ties to which it is secured. Fig. 2 represents a side-view of such rail-portion and ties. Fig. 40 3 represents a perspective view of portions of a rail and of a tie to which it is secured.

Fig. 4 represents a cross-section of the rail and fastening.-

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

' Referring to the drawings, the reference numeral 1 indicates the rail, which is mainly of the ordinary shape and proportions, having foot-flanges, 2, a web, 3, and a head, 4.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 7,1913.

At intervals, equal to the .usual distances between the ties, 5, of the road, shoulders, 6, are formed upon the upper sides of the footfianges, having preferably level top-faces, 7 and flat and vertical sidefaces, 8, and ends, 9, at right angles to such to faces. The rail is placed upon the crossties inthe usual; manner, gaged and alinedinthe usual manner, whereupon the usual spikes, 10, are driven so as to have the shoulders abut against the heads, 11, of the spikes, the abutting sides of the shoulders facing in the di-i roction toward which the creeping tends, as shown in Fig. 1, in which the direction of' the creeping is indicated by an arrow. The shoulders, abutting against the heads of the spikes, will effectually prevent any movement of the rail, and, having the sides facing in both directions, the same rail may be used to prevent creeping in either direction by driving the spike to abut against either side of the shoulder according to the direction of the creep. The shoulders may be rolled upon the foot-flange without interfering with the shaping of the balance of the rail, and the shoulders at the ends of the rail will not interfere with the joining of the rails by fish-plates. If angle-plates are employed in the rail-joints, the shoulders near the ends of the rail are formed upon the same at a sufiicient distance from the ends to admit of the angle-plates being placed. The shoulders are preferably formed on both foot-flanges and in diagonal alinement, so that the spikes may be driven into the tie out of longitudinal alinement in their relation to the tie.

The rail can be used in connection with rails of the usual construction, canbe laid upon the ties without any special pre aration of thesame, and the ordinary rai way spike is used in connection with it.

Other modes of applying the principle of my invention may be employed for the mode herein explained. Change may therefore be made as regards the mechanism thus dis- 95 closed, provided the principles of construction set forth, respectively in the following claims are employed.

Having thus described my invention, formed upon the upper sides (if its foot- What I claim as new and desire to secure by flanges and extending to the edges of the 10 Letters Patent, is same, and each formed with fiat vertical l. A railway rail having a raised shoulder side and end-faces.

5 formed upon the u per side of a foot-flange ADAM M. TAYLOR.

and extending to the edge of the same and Witnesses: formed with flat vertical side faces. H. C. ZIMMERMAN,

2. A railway rail having raised shoulders T. E. MCOULLOUGB. 

